On 08/23/2011 06:50 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 05:17:25AM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
For some reason beyond my comprehension, the designers of SRIOV
ethernet cards decided that the virtual functions (VF) of the card
(each VF corresponds to an ethernet device, e.g.
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 04:16:33AM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
On 08/23/2011 06:50 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Although I realize that many people are predisposed to not like the
idea of PCI passthrough of ethernet devices (including me), it seems
that it's going to be used, so we may as well
On 08/24/2011 05:48 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Having transient hostdevs does not really work nicely, because we want
all PCI devices in the guest to be persistently in the XML, so we can
ensure the guest PCI address does not get changed each time the guest
is run.
Ah, well that clinches
On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 05:17 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
For some reason beyond my comprehension, the designers of SRIOV ethernet
cards decided that the virtual functions (VF) of the card (each VF
corresponds to an ethernet device, e.g. eth10) should each be given a
new+different+random MAC
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 05:17:25AM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
For some reason beyond my comprehension, the designers of SRIOV
ethernet cards decided that the virtual functions (VF) of the card
(each VF corresponds to an ethernet device, e.g. eth10) should
each be given a new+different+random
On Aug 23, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
[...snip...]
This makes using SRIOV VFs via PCI passthrough very unpalatable. The
problem can be solved by setting the MAC address of the ethernet
device prior to assigning it to the guest, but of course the
hostdev element used to
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 01:53:42PM +0200, D. Herrendoerfer wrote:
On Aug 23, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
[...snip...]
This makes using SRIOV VFs via PCI passthrough very unpalatable. The
problem can be solved by setting the MAC address of the ethernet
device prior to
For some reason beyond my comprehension, the designers of SRIOV ethernet
cards decided that the virtual functions (VF) of the card (each VF
corresponds to an ethernet device, e.g. eth10) should each be given a
new+different+random MAC address each time the hardware is rebooted.
Normally, udev
